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Edward L. Addison Generating Plant

Gas power plant in Georgia, United States of America. Approximate location 32.9111, -84.3064.

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Edward L. Addison Generating Plant is a 701 MW gas power station in Georgia, United States of America. It is operated by Southern Power Co. Based on reported annual generation of 370 GWh, it can supply roughly 105,628 homes. It ranks #498 of 9,833 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 122,188 t CO₂/yr (US EPA GHGRP) are equivalent to about 28,482 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).

701MW installed capacity
370GWh reported / yr
105,628homes powered
122,188t CO₂ / yr (US EPA GHGRP)
2000commissioned (~26 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0055267.

122,188 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

28,482passenger cars driven for a year
15,935homes' yearly energy use
2,036,467tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to US EPA GHGRP.

Reported generation trend

2013: 153 GWh20132014: 532 GWh20142015: 394 GWh20152016: 404 GWh20162017: 290 GWh20172018: 347 GWh20182019: 370 GWh2019532 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Southern Power Co. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 32.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.3°Cannual mean temp
1,212heating degree-days (base 18°C)
988cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
153 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 13 °CND: 9 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 51% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 29/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

A gas turbine here also runs ~2% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #261 largest gas power plant of 1818 in United States of America by capacity.

United States of America has 1818 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 546,436 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 32.9111, -84.3064 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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